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Title: Garden of
Madness
Author: Tracy Higley
Pages: 376
Year: 2012
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Tiamat is the youngest daughter
and princess of King Nebuchadnezzar. She
was married at a very young age and her husband has just died. She is now 21 years old and doesn’t want to
marry again. She thinks she will now be
free to do as she likes. Her mother soon
dispels that notion by telling Tia she will marry again and soon. She will be married to her mother’s cousin, a
Mede, to form an alliance between Babylon and Media. Tia wants no part of this and tries to think
up different plans of thwarting her mother’s plan. Her mother is very cold toward Tia and always
concerned with appearances and duty. Tia
literally runs from responsibility. She
has her own training room where she runs sometimes. She feels free when she leaves the palace and
enters the city full of people. The
murder of one of her father’s faithful noblemen causes her to begin asking
questions about his murder. Th…

Title: Eyes of
Justice (Triple Threat Series #4)
Author: Lis Wiehl with April Henry
Pages: 292
Year: 2012
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Allison Pierce, federal
prosecutor, has had her wayward sister living with her and her husband for
almost a year now. Lindsay is finally
going to try to open a business of her own.
Allison agrees to co-sign on the loan from the bank. While at the bank, Allison goes to the
restroom and while there something terrible happens. This on top of the recent death of someone very
close to her just about breaks her, but she clings to her faith in God. She wants justice to be served and will not
let the guilty go unpunished. As more
information comes to light, Allison wonders if what happened at the bank was
just a cover-up for something else. Is
she safe in her beloved city of Portland?
Nicole Hedges, FBI agent, has
resumed her relationship with Leif and is status post breast cancer
surgery. Along with Allison, she vows to
see justice done no matter th…

Title: Death by the
Book (A Drew Farthering Mystery #2)
Author: Julianna Deering
Pages: 316
Year: 2014
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
The setting is early 1930s in the
little village of Farthering St. John, Great Britain. Drew has asked Madeline Parker, his American
girlfriend, to marry him, but she has asked for some time to be sure that
marriage to him is the right thing for her.
Drew has decided that he needs to make some changes to his will to
benefit Madeline, whether they marry or not, and requests a meeting with his
lawyer. When he arrives for the meeting,
he finds his lawyer murdered. Thus
begins another murder mystery where Drew acts in an amateur capacity with the
local law enforcement personnel. Before
any headway is made on this murder, another murder is committed at Drew’s
country club out on the golf course!
As Drew continues to investigate,
more murders occur and they continue with the same theme, but Drew is no closer
to figuring out who the murderer is…

Title: It Had to Be
You
Author: Susan May Warren
Pages: 480
Year: 2014
Publisher: Tyndale Publishers
Susan May Warren really nails the
heart with love and grace when characters in the novel begin to understand how
they are viewing themselves, and when what they do in their lives becomes the
standard to which they measure their hopes, fears, triumphs or failures is the
dawning of a new day. Jace is known as the NHL Blue Ox team’s bad boy. The more he fights instead of scoring, the
happier the fans. Eden thought writing
obits was a meaningless job when all she has ever wanted to be was an honest
reporter.
In reality, our lives tend to mesh
and we gather our identity through another person’s life or whomever we tend to
idolize. The Christiansen family isn’t
depicted as perfect Christians, but has its own problems, hopes, dreams,
failures and triumphs. With each page,
readers will be able to identify with various characters with different life
situations. Sounds like reality do…

Title: Gatehaven
Author: Molly Noble Bull
Pages: 246
Year: 2014
Publisher: Creation House
The year is 1784, and the setting
is mostly England, but some of the story takes place in Scotland. Gatehaven is the creepy home of the Earl of
Northon where young women have entered, but never come out. Where are they? Is there really a gateway to the underworld
in this house?
Shannon Aimee is a young girl
whose head is turned by the earl. He has
proposed marriage to her, even though she is a farmer’s daughter. She travels to England with her best friend,
Ian Colquhoun, who is to be an assistant to the vicar. Upon arrival, Shannon is treated terribly by
the earl’s family and the earl himself.
Privately, he still keeps her affection with sweet words, but makes
excuses for his family’s behavior and puts off announcing their
engagement. Is he really the wonderful
man she fell in love with? Was that just
an act to gain her regard? What about
the strange meetings held at Gatehaven on …

Title: A Melody for
James (Song of Suspense #1)
Author: Hallee Bridgeman
Pages: 301
Year: 2013
Publisher: Olivia Kimbrell Press
James Montgomery has survived a devastating, heartbreaking
event that changes his life forever. He
now travels months at a time to London and when he is home in the U.S., he is
locked away working in his office on his computer. He works to forget. If his mind is busy working, then he can’t
remember what happened and thus won’t feel the pain and sadness. It is in this frame of mind that he happens
upon Melody Mason. He is instantly
attracted to her, but thinks it is too soon and that he shouldn’t be. He wants to see her again, but circumstances
prevent that until four years later.
When they meet again, the attraction is stronger than ever. She makes him feel alive again. He has also found God and is growing ever
stronger in his faith. He is an
entrepreneur who owns his own very successful business.
Melody Mason has just discovered something te…

Title: Saving Mr.
Banks
Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Year: 2014
Format: DVD
When I first heard the title of the movie along with the
actors and actresses appearing in the story, my heart was drawn to the
movie. So one night I sat in my home and
watched it, knowing that the movie was sharing with the audience the story
behind the Mary Poppins movie originally made in 1964. That movie won five academy awards, which in
that era I am sure was astounding, along with propelling Julie Andrews and Dick
Van Dyke into the home of many viewers.
I watched the movie, Saving Mr. Banks, which flashes back
into the author of Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers’, childhood. Like the various pieces of a puzzle we are
shown the woman who so long ago and who still does today touches us with the
hope for redemption. P. L. Travers had a
hard childhood, but also had an amazing imagination that helped her cope with a
reality that was less than stellar.
Along with her, we are given a pe…

Title: Summer of Joy
(Hollyhill Series #3)
Author: Ann H. Gabhart
Pages: 352
Year: 2008
Publisher: Revell
Don’t let the cover to the book
deceive you into thinking that this book has a boring, uninteresting story
because that is not true! In fact, I
loved it as it takes all the elements from the first two novels in the series
and brings them to some surprising conclusions.
We are introduced to Hollyhill and David Brooke first with The Scent of Lilacs, followed by Orchard of Hope, which adds depth to the
plot and prepares readers for the suspense-filled ending!
I was not expecting all the action
the last novel came with, the twist and turns of the plot along with a mystery
male character. Jocie is starting high school,
and she is writing her eye witness accounts in a journal. She not only writes about events and people
that have come into her life, but also thanks the Lord and adds prayers. Jocie is a prayer warrior. She believes God and asks things with
childlike faith, kn…

Why we do what we do

When this blog began it was during a time of raising my sons and care taking for ailing inlaws. Before those seasons ended this blog morphed into writing reviews and interviewing authors. With the constant change in the Christian publishing industry and our society, our purpose expanded.

With my girlfriend coming alongside, we review all sorts of novels, hunting for sound stories. While there are a couple genres we will not review for several reasons, we remain open to looking into new opportunities to read and share about good books!

In all of what we do we aim to bring glory to God and Christ Jesus in the ministry of blogging which we believe He has blessed us to do. We are always amazed that we get to wake up and do something with such profound joy each and everyday.